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Well permit 9608-
Well permit · receipt 9105101 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Rio Grande County
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR permit record ↗
What this permit is not
A well permit is the State Engineer’s permission to construct and use a well — it is not a decreed water right and confers none. DWR’s record limits its use to: Domestic, Stock (category Residential).
It carries no WDID, so nothing on the decreed side of this site describes it. For an exempt household or stock well that is normal: such a well is exempt from administration in the priority system — a river call does not curtail it — and never needed a decree. For a non-exempt use it may mean the application expired, was denied, or was permitted under an augmentation plan DWR has not linked here. How permits, decrees and monitoring wells differ →
Permit details
| Status | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 40.0 ft |
| Driller | SMITH DRILLING (SMITH, F R) |
| Permit issued | 1961-08-29 |
| Well completed | 1961-11-09 |
| First beneficial use | 1961-11-09 |
Location
| Coordinates | 37.60695, -106.20482 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | N PM, T39.0 N R7.0 E S21SESE |
Nearby well permits
The 10 closest permits on record, as DWR describes them. Depth and static water level are what the driller reported at completion — one reading, on one day, not a monitored trend. See them on the map →
| Permit | Use | Distance | Depth | Static level | Yield | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9608--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.0 km | 94 ft | — | 5.0 gpm | 2004-09-11 |
| 240702- | Domestic, Stock | 0.05 km | 50 ft | — | — | — |
| 240702--A | Domestic, Stock | 0.05 km | 80 ft | — | — | 2003-05-17 |
| 104399- | Domestic, Stock | 0.08 km | 56 ft | — | 15.0 gpm | 1979-02-12 |
| 7295-R-R | Irrigation | 0.14 km | 78 ft | — | 1000.0 gpm | 2004-02-26 |
| 176582- | Domestic, Stock | 0.24 km | 62 ft | — | — | 1994-05-04 |
| 9301214A | Irrigation | 0.26 km | 20 ft | — | — | — |
| 9301214B | Irrigation | 0.26 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7295-R | Irrigation | 0.32 km | 33 ft | — | — | 1938-05-01 |
| 9301381B | Irrigation | 0.32 km | — | — | — | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.